3dfx

[ALBPM]

I still have this Beast but it's been in the original box collecting dust in my closet.


It was one hell of a card in it's time.

Paul

[Bohrn]

hehe, thanx. I figured as much. Oh well, its a voodoo2 or 2 I guess.

[Dr Mordrid]

BIG card for a display adapter, at least today. How long is that thing?

The biggest card I have running right now is a Promise SuperTrak100 6 channel RAID 0/1/3/5 card. It runs 12.25" long & 4.25" high....with the rack handle removed.

Dr. Mordrid

[KeiFront]

Originally posted by Bohrn
but CHAAS, I still wanna know how I would setup my primary card (Radeon 8500 or Matrox G400) WITH a Voodoo 3/4/5 card in the same machine at the same time??

thanx

I will let you know when mine (Voodoo 5 PCI) arrives propably I need a monitor switch, I already got a monitor with two VGA inputs but one is already used for my server .

He ALBPM guess what i'm still using in my P200@233 a Diamond Monster 3D II

[KeiFront]

An update.

The card arrived today. The size of the card is huge.

Drivers are definatly immature for win2k (had a few problems in games that I tested) though didn't noticed a problem in win98.

FSAA rocks, the pictures on the net don't give you the right impression, it sure is a nice feature when playing flight sims or car simulations.

And I've got triple screen but I need a third monitor or a monitor switch.

Haven't benchmarked the card yet tried to install Quake 3 but my CD is broken (invalid win32 application when I try to run setup ). So benchmarking has to wait a day or two.

[CHHAS]

The card sure it huge

I found a nice Tweak guide http://www.3dspotlight.com/tweaks/voodoo5/index.shtml which really helped me set this thing up right, I play UT at 800x600 2xFSAA, at around 60 FPS average.

[CHHAS]

Just recieved my copy of Carmageddon II, dang it looks sweet in Glide with 4xAA

Almost forgot how much fun this game is ...

[Marshmallowman]

I wonder what would of happened if 3dfx allowed other to produce glide drivers back in the voodo 2 days...

would glide have become an established standard with 3dfx in the place where nvidia is now?

[RichL]

Whats the 2D/3D quality like from a Voodoo 4500 or 5500?
I'm rather taken with the idea of putting in a 5500 just for gaming. My Iiyama has 2 inputs

[KeiFront]

2D is decent RichL definately not as good as my G200 or G400 but better than a Geforce. My Geforce at work is worse than this Voodoo 5.

But I still got some problems sometimes Quake III or UT freezes after an half hour gaming under Win2K . Maybe I just got driver problems but I also suspect my PSU (350W) I've got 5 PCI cards in my system those consume a lot of power .

At the moment I'm running the demo loop of 3dmark 2000 under win98 with the Voodoo 5 attached to a seperate PSU. And it's running now an half hour without a problem so I guess It's the PSU or it's just Win2K that is causing the freezes.